Face it, America. This isn’t going away. Of course, it seems that we all know that. In fact, that seems to be the point I’m making here. The economy is in the shitter. That much is fact. It seems to be getting worse and worse every day, but that’s something that we can change. Yeah, I said we. I mean you and me. Each one of us has something we can do about it.
To start, I should point out that there’s a reason I’m even around to type it. You see, I’m sitting here, in a library in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, because I don’t have a job, and this library affords me internet use to help me get one. I applied to be a bartender today, even though I’m not one by trade, because it’s a job I need. And you know what? I’m having a bitch of a time getting one. And I hope that every single person out there who is looking for work is having just as hard a time. Perhaps that’s spiteful of me, yes, but I can't say that I'm very concerned about it. I think I've earned a bit of spite.
And the problem I have here is that I've actually heard very little in support of actually doing something about the economy. President Obama has been in office less than a month, and has already ramrodded a bill through that, while in no way perfect, is at least doing something. Meanwhile, the GOP has toed the party line through-and-through, save for three Senate Republicans, in saying that doing nothing is better than following the President.
Hold on a second. Doing nothing? Well, perhaps they don't honestly believe that, but I haven't heard anyone offer another option, even one that's less than halfway reasonable. The only thing the Republican party has really had to say about this is that it won't work. Not "This isn't going to work, let's try this instead.", but just "This isn't going to work". I'm sorry, but that's just not good enough anymore.
My advice? Spend. Every single person. Get out to the store and buy a loaf of bread, or down to the McDonald's for a burger (actually, go Burger King, they're better), or down to the bar to buy a beer. That way, the store can hire a bag boy, the Burger King can hire another broiler bitch, and the bar can have another beerslinger. Which then turns into more money going back into the economy.
That's how we can fix this economy. By taking a little or a lot of our hard-earned money and putting it back into some other working Joe’s paycheck.
